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the 10-year law expired on september 13th, 2004. there have been multiple attempts to renew the weapons law ban but no bill has been legislated. will president obama revive the federal federal assault weapons ban? pat buchanan. >> john, the president had both houses of congress with him in 2009 for two years, and he didn't do it then. i doubt if he will try it now, but he may do it. but take a look at what happened up here. this individual came in and murdered his mother, who was a teacher, i believe of the kindergarten kids and may have murdered his father. you've got a did he meanted or insane individual who shouldn't have had any gun at all. but there were people that came to that school with assault weapons. all the first responders, the s.w.a.t. teams, the good guys had assault weapons, john. so i don't think you can blame this on the gun itself. you've got blame it on the killer, and if, john, you really do go after guns and try to, quote, disarm america, did you know on black friday, the day after thanksgiving, 155,000 reques
the 10-year law expired on september 13th, 2004. there have been multiple attempts to renew the weapons law ban but no bill has been legislated. will president obama revive the federal federal assault weapons ban? pat buchanan. >> john, the president had both houses of congress with him in 2009 for two years, and he didn't do it then. i doubt if he will try it now, but he may do it. but take a look at what happened up here. this individual came in and murdered his mother, who was a...
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of law, i, i found really amazing and i think there are a lot of people in the world who spend a lot of their life waiting for an opportunity to make a difference and make a change in their communities or in their countries, and so many people, too many people never get that chance and i think if you become a prosecutor and your only responsibility and mission is to make the country and the community a little bit safer and better and do what is right, there can be no more gratifying job than that. and more specifically when i was in law school, i took a class on trial practice, with some very fine folks and realized that there is nothing that compares to the compilation of trying a case in front of a jury. >> rose: did you watch to kill a mockingbird when you were young. >> did and read it also. >> rose: and made you want to be a lawyer? >> that and also i actually read inherit the wind in seventh grade. >> rose: great story. >> i thought that would be a great thing to do to stand up in a courtroom and argue to a judge and a jury on cases of magnitude and significance to people in th
of law, i, i found really amazing and i think there are a lot of people in the world who spend a lot of their life waiting for an opportunity to make a difference and make a change in their communities or in their countries, and so many people, too many people never get that chance and i think if you become a prosecutor and your only responsibility and mission is to make the country and the community a little bit safer and better and do what is right, there can be no more gratifying job than...
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that was found constitutional, other parts of the law also stand. insurance companies cannot disqualify people who have a preexisting illness, they can't raise rates on the chronically sick and children can remain on their parent's plans until the age of 26. there was one setback for the law, the court said that congress cannot force the states to expand medicaid to cover more of the poor. we have a team of correspondents covering the story, our chief legal correspondent jan crawford is at the supreme court and, jan, it was a complicated decision today, the majority rejected the president's main argument, but still found a way to support his law. >> well, that's right, scott, for a lot of people the central question in this case was whether or not congress could force you to buy a product. here insurance from a private company, and today the court said congress did have that kind of power. so while they upheld the law, they still imposed significant restrictions on what congress can do going forward. >> proponents cheered when they heard supreme cou
that was found constitutional, other parts of the law also stand. insurance companies cannot disqualify people who have a preexisting illness, they can't raise rates on the chronically sick and children can remain on their parent's plans until the age of 26. there was one setback for the law, the court said that congress cannot force the states to expand medicaid to cover more of the poor. we have a team of correspondents covering the story, our chief legal correspondent jan crawford is at the...
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last week, the supreme court challenged the constitutionality of the health care reform law during a three-day supreme court hearing session. the court's decision is expected in june and could impact the 2012 election. i am pleased to have nancy pelosi back at this table. >> thank you, charlie. great to be here. >> rose: let's talk about health care first. >> i have confidence in the merits of the case. nibble judicial review and we wrote the bill, obviously, in compliance with the constitution of the united states. we thought we were ironclad, you never know in court. what's interesting about it, though, s that our republican colleagues when president bush was president and they had the majority, they were advocating something called court stripping. in other words, they'd write a bill and then they'd have a prohibition in the bill that would say the court has... cannot have judicial review, striping the court of the ability to have judicial review over the law. so they've not been particularly friendly to the courts. we have. we respect the court. now they are not... now they're fo
last week, the supreme court challenged the constitutionality of the health care reform law during a three-day supreme court hearing session. the court's decision is expected in june and could impact the 2012 election. i am pleased to have nancy pelosi back at this table. >> thank you, charlie. great to be here. >> rose: let's talk about health care first. >> i have confidence in the merits of the case. nibble judicial review and we wrote the bill, obviously, in compliance...
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in douglas blackmon's work, we learn how elastic were laws like vagrancy laws, intended effectively to empower any citizen and/or law enforcement official to check the papers of a black person moving freely along the world. and if you couldn't prove that you were currently employed, bound to a tenant farming contract or a sharecropping agreement, then you were by definition a vagrant, by definition a criminal, and subject to, in this case, convict leasing. so if you're a sharecropper and you're being cheated by the white landowner. and you tell him to go to hell and you step away. he can call the police and say, "this person left my property. and they don't have a job. they're a vagrant." you get picked up, you're done. you're off to a convict lease. the point is that that elasticity, that ability to use the law as an instrument of control, the ability to use discretion is exactly what operates in the context of stop and frisk. it operated in new york. stop and frisk as a explicit policy is not that old, but as an informal practice, "condemnation" describes numerous instances. it's hap
in douglas blackmon's work, we learn how elastic were laws like vagrancy laws, intended effectively to empower any citizen and/or law enforcement official to check the papers of a black person moving freely along the world. and if you couldn't prove that you were currently employed, bound to a tenant farming contract or a sharecropping agreement, then you were by definition a vagrant, by definition a criminal, and subject to, in this case, convict leasing. so if you're a sharecropper and you're...
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and our chief counsel is, in fact, nyu law professor, full time at the police department, but for 20 something quleerz teaching at nyu law school and a cadre of other first-rate attorneys, former assistant u.s. attorneys who look, monitor what we do. obviously, we live in the mostly at this juice environmentally tijs you environment so we have to be cognizant of what we do, we have to check .. we have to make certain what we are doing is within constitutional bounds about that is precisely what we are doing. >> rose: so anyone suggests it is not constitutional what the nypg is doing with respect to muslim groups is in your judgment and the judgment of those people who advise you is just wrong? >> yes. that is absolutely correct. we adhere to the constitution, meticulously, because we know that what we are doing is being observed. we not that there are lots of groups that, you know, they sue us on a regular basis, certainly the mayor is the number one defendant in this city, every day papers are coming in about something. so we have to be aware. we have to be cautious and we are. >> r
and our chief counsel is, in fact, nyu law professor, full time at the police department, but for 20 something quleerz teaching at nyu law school and a cadre of other first-rate attorneys, former assistant u.s. attorneys who look, monitor what we do. obviously, we live in the mostly at this juice environmentally tijs you environment so we have to be cognizant of what we do, we have to check .. we have to make certain what we are doing is within constitutional bounds about that is precisely what...
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after working seven years in the insurance business he's now in his first year of law school. >> you know, my sister and i always thought this... i won faster if she would host the party in high school, and most parents would say no, i don't want kid around things like that, and her answer was always i don't want the liability. >> tom: they realized early on their mom was a little different. what was it like going to school with a mom like pamela? was she a room mom, for instance in school? >> no. she wasn't. and i think it's so interesting for me, because i'm just becoming a working mom and i think about it a lot. my mom really, it must have been a very challenging time, she was a nine near, it was the mid '70s when she had me, and she was very protective of her to be at a senior level in her organization and be so successful, and i think the expectations of her at work were that she would either be a successful professional or she would be a mom, but not both. and i think she took, i don't know if anybody has told the story, but she took her office by surprise when she came in one
after working seven years in the insurance business he's now in his first year of law school. >> you know, my sister and i always thought this... i won faster if she would host the party in high school, and most parents would say no, i don't want kid around things like that, and her answer was always i don't want the liability. >> tom: they realized early on their mom was a little different. what was it like going to school with a mom like pamela? was she a room mom, for instance in...
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one-third of the children there do not get state-funded preschools laws, and in response, some parents are setting up their own underground schools. >> is drop of time for preschoolers in brooklyn, but this is no ordinary school. it is a cooperative run by the parents. there are 10 more such schools in this neighborhood alone. >> i ask if anyone was interested in a school, and i got over 75 responses. >> jennifer and her parents colleagues have designed a curriculum for these three-year- old. what drove them to make all this effort? >> the private systems were never created to hold mass amounts. they were created for a more elite group of people. glaxo is this the answer? >> it may be. it is a grassroots thing, people taking what really matters into their own hands. >> publicly funded preschool places are at a premium. a co-op cost less than a private preschool and parents find the process less stressful. >> the preschool market in new york city is very competitive and very expensive. this was a very low-key way to introduce our family into the entire experience. >> with the baby boom
one-third of the children there do not get state-funded preschools laws, and in response, some parents are setting up their own underground schools. >> is drop of time for preschoolers in brooklyn, but this is no ordinary school. it is a cooperative run by the parents. there are 10 more such schools in this neighborhood alone. >> i ask if anyone was interested in a school, and i got over 75 responses. >> jennifer and her parents colleagues have designed a curriculum for these...
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full day for businesses of all sizes to know for certain they have to plan for the health care reform law. while the supreme court's clears up some of the unknowns, the effect on costs remains uncertain. alex soto sees all sides of the health care debate. he's c.e.o. of an independent insurance agency, finding health insurance for companies and individuals. he supplies his 65 employees with health coverage, and soto serves on the board of directors of a non-profit children's hospital. we spoke with him at his miami agency this afternoon. >> they narrow a little bit, because the economy turns around, and we will be, in fact, my, has shown positive froegt this past year. modest single digit, but for the first time on the income side. the expense side, this year, our renewal, january 1 went up 11%, the year before, 18.5%. so that's going to come down quite a bit more. >> tom: you work with a lot of small businesses. are they looking at serious consideration of not offering health insurance, and just taking it? >> i was with a client who says we're spending close to $10,000 per employee on he
full day for businesses of all sizes to know for certain they have to plan for the health care reform law. while the supreme court's clears up some of the unknowns, the effect on costs remains uncertain. alex soto sees all sides of the health care debate. he's c.e.o. of an independent insurance agency, finding health insurance for companies and individuals. he supplies his 65 employees with health coverage, and soto serves on the board of directors of a non-profit children's hospital. we spoke...
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both states have laws barring the sale of alcohol on election day, it applies to booze sold in stores and restaurants. the laws are a holdover from the days of prohibition, but they're still on the books some 80 years later. while it's a misdemeanor offense in south carolina, tom, a first conviction carries a $200 fine and as much as 60 days in jail. that's "nightly business report" for monday, november 5. have a great evening everyone, and you too tom. >> tom: goodnight susie, we'll see you online at: www.nbr.com and back here tomorrow night. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org cer:
both states have laws barring the sale of alcohol on election day, it applies to booze sold in stores and restaurants. the laws are a holdover from the days of prohibition, but they're still on the books some 80 years later. while it's a misdemeanor offense in south carolina, tom, a first conviction carries a $200 fine and as much as 60 days in jail. that's "nightly business report" for monday, november 5. have a great evening everyone, and you too tom. >> tom: goodnight susie,...
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ist we're talking about here the of the top uses its political influence to get laws and regulations that benefit them and the rest of our society, that is a fact. and it is a distortion to the economy of which we all suffer. if it says derivatives get first claim, first priority and paid back before anybody else, you're encouraging derivatives, that means the economy is distorted toward these speculative activities that led to the aig bailout. if you have the bankruptcy law that says the student loans can't be discharged even in bankruptcy even if the school does not give the education that was promised, we are making life so much more difficult for those at the bottom, those that are striving to make their way and a rough society. what we need to do is take an objective look at laws and regulations, and the way that they are not only advantage that the top and disadvantaged at the bottom, the weakening the economy. tavis: i have argued that her poverty threatens our very democracy long term. is that too strong a claim? >> i think you're absolutely right. if our society is going to
ist we're talking about here the of the top uses its political influence to get laws and regulations that benefit them and the rest of our society, that is a fact. and it is a distortion to the economy of which we all suffer. if it says derivatives get first claim, first priority and paid back before anybody else, you're encouraging derivatives, that means the economy is distorted toward these speculative activities that led to the aig bailout. if you have the bankruptcy law that says the...
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original three strikes law. of those the department of corrections estimates just under 3,000 might be eligible for resentencing under this new law. and, you know, there is questions about whether all those people will get resentenced and whether they'll actually get released. the process is that an inmate has to petition the court, the county where he was sentenced, or she, and if it's determined that he is eligible, that he meets the criteria, then he will be resentenced and that will entail a doubling of what would have been the original sentence without the three strikes enhancement. however, if the local district attorney wants to challenge that, he or she can on the grounds that the inmate might pose a risk to public safety, an unreasonable risk based on prior offenses, based on time behind bars, perhaps incidents in prison. >> are there any timelines prescribed whether the sentencing has to take place or whether the local d.a. objects or doesn't? >> no, and i think that's one of the things that has to be
original three strikes law. of those the department of corrections estimates just under 3,000 might be eligible for resentencing under this new law. and, you know, there is questions about whether all those people will get resentenced and whether they'll actually get released. the process is that an inmate has to petition the court, the county where he was sentenced, or she, and if it's determined that he is eligible, that he meets the criteria, then he will be resentenced and that will entail...
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we are improving the rule of law. we are confronting these cartels, we're trying to bring them down, bring them to justice. we are transforming institutions devoted to the rule of law. and we are also going to the most vulnerable area of society to try to reconstruct the social fabric. of course we want to have much better results. >> rose: are you succeeding. >> i think we would want to have much better results. we have some indications that we are on the right track. let me show you again a simple chart of what we have been able to do in cuidad juarez. it became at some point a couple years ago one of the most violent cities in the world. >> rose: right. >> the drug gangs were fighting each other, they were killing each other and it was very very hard and it was a very very hard environment. we had been able to bring the homicide rate 76% with a comprehensive strategy and we are doing things like this in other areas of the country where the violence is particularly significant. overall, the crime rate in mexico decr
we are improving the rule of law. we are confronting these cartels, we're trying to bring them down, bring them to justice. we are transforming institutions devoted to the rule of law. and we are also going to the most vulnerable area of society to try to reconstruct the social fabric. of course we want to have much better results. >> rose: are you succeeding. >> i think we would want to have much better results. we have some indications that we are on the right track. let me show...
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this was 1999 and i was like, well most of my friends miserable at their desk jobs working in sweet or law and i'm going to pursue something that i at least enjoy doing, and that was cooking. >> rose: you liked it? >> i liked it. >> rose: what did you like about it? >> that you could work with something and get better at it and sort of just taste and -- you're creating something, using your hands. it's something that was just the direct polar opposite of what i was doing in college or what i was being groomed to do which i had no idea. cooking was something i felt i had had an honor in. it was like a real craft. if i had more dexterity i would have been like a -- i don't know, a cooper or something like that. >> rose: or a surgeon. >> yeah, a surgeon. >> rose: (laughs) >> so you're -- you went about cooking and you got a series of jobs, including japan. >> yes. >> rose: and how influential was that? >> it was life changing. life changing. >> rose: life changing. >> yeah. i had a small stint teaching english in japan and i promised myself i'd go back to japan to do it right and to absorb th
this was 1999 and i was like, well most of my friends miserable at their desk jobs working in sweet or law and i'm going to pursue something that i at least enjoy doing, and that was cooking. >> rose: you liked it? >> i liked it. >> rose: what did you like about it? >> that you could work with something and get better at it and sort of just taste and -- you're creating something, using your hands. it's something that was just the direct polar opposite of what i was doing...
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the group says a tesla-owned store would violate the state's dealer franchise law, which doesn't allow auto manufacturers to own dealerships. new york city's auto dealer association is challenging tesla over similar plans. the company says it has worked closely with regulators to operate in compliance with all state and municipal laws. >> susie: tomorrow on nbr, our friday "market monitor" guest is a buyer, and says stock valuations remain reasonable. he's robert stovall, strategist at wood asset management. also tomorrow, quarterly results from chevron and merck. >> tom: education is one of the many issues president obama and governor romney sparred about in their presidential campaign debates. and tonight's commentator says there's an entire group of students that have been short- changed. he's todd buccholz, author of "rush: why you need and love the rat race." >> our schools have cheated and discriminated against a generation of students. when i was in high school, they divided us into two tracks. the college prep kids read "beowulf" and "macbeth"; the other kids were shunted into
the group says a tesla-owned store would violate the state's dealer franchise law, which doesn't allow auto manufacturers to own dealerships. new york city's auto dealer association is challenging tesla over similar plans. the company says it has worked closely with regulators to operate in compliance with all state and municipal laws. >> susie: tomorrow on nbr, our friday "market monitor" guest is a buyer, and says stock valuations remain reasonable. he's robert stovall,...
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-- the federal laws don't cover that, so you have to change that law. that is one thing that congress should do. and that's this gun check act. second, they've got to pass a ban on assault weapons. you know, the founding fathers never thought about assault weapons. they were talking about a militia, the founding fathers never thought-- i will give you a good example. they, you can go into a gun magazine and see advertisements for armour piercing bullets. now i don't know if you are a hunter but when is the last time you saw a deer wearing a bulletproof vest. not very frequently. as a matter of fact, nobody wears bulletproof vests except one group, police. and so these bullets are designed to kill cops. it's the only rational to go and buy an armour-piercing bullet. i've never understood why the police in this country don't get together and say enough. i don't want to die. i want to go home to my family. an we've got to do something, you the public to protect me. so you have to dot effective ban and assault weapons and then you've got to page gun traffic
-- the federal laws don't cover that, so you have to change that law. that is one thing that congress should do. and that's this gun check act. second, they've got to pass a ban on assault weapons. you know, the founding fathers never thought about assault weapons. they were talking about a militia, the founding fathers never thought-- i will give you a good example. they, you can go into a gun magazine and see advertisements for armour piercing bullets. now i don't know if you are a hunter but...
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they are considered illegal under international law but israel disputes this. israel as wanting to demolish a village to make way for a new settlement. it claims the village itself was constructed illegally, but campaigners say forcing them to move contravenes international law. >> the 10-year-old is a good student. but like many girls, she loves going to school. the boys, less so. gold from old tires, the school is precarious in more ways than one. all of the students here are children of arab nomads that have relocated to the dusty valley in the occupied west bank. now the israelis want them to move again. >> the school is part of our community, if it is closed and demolished, the girls in particular will suffer. they will probably have to drop out of education. >> the many jewish settlement overlooking the school are illegal under international law. israel says this is israeli state land and has plans to develop the settlement. they say they have no legal right to be here, so they must move on. >> it was built the takeover in a political act, a piece of land
they are considered illegal under international law but israel disputes this. israel as wanting to demolish a village to make way for a new settlement. it claims the village itself was constructed illegally, but campaigners say forcing them to move contravenes international law. >> the 10-year-old is a good student. but like many girls, she loves going to school. the boys, less so. gold from old tires, the school is precarious in more ways than one. all of the students here are children...
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because it basically matches what he signed into law in massachusetts and that's been successful. >> rose: and, of course, you know he would say that's a state mandate. >> i understand. but the point is, that's an approach to making sure everybody's got health care, that five or ten years ago would have been considered not just mainstream but a center right approach to solving this problem. so it's not as if there's an equivalent between democrats and republicans on this issue. i think the american people have to decide whether a sharply ideological shift by the republicans is what they want. and it may be. or whether the traditional balanced, responsible approach that we're taking is one that's most likely to lead for prosperity for most people. >> rose: the question most people want to know from both of you is why do you want to be president? why do you want him to be president? and what will be the significant achievement that you want to accomplish in the next four years. >> well, first of all, i think it's important to know we did an awful lot in the first four years. >> rose: o
because it basically matches what he signed into law in massachusetts and that's been successful. >> rose: and, of course, you know he would say that's a state mandate. >> i understand. but the point is, that's an approach to making sure everybody's got health care, that five or ten years ago would have been considered not just mainstream but a center right approach to solving this problem. so it's not as if there's an equivalent between democrats and republicans on this issue. i...
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jamie dimon called the law too complicated. markets, he said have self- corrected following after the financial crisis. >> a lot of what caused the problem don't exist anymore. and that wasn't because of regulations, it was because of markets. >> reporter: bair disagrees. >> well, gee, i hardly know where to start. the government is guaranteeing so much right now. the insured deposits have exploded. we're guaranteeing almost all of the mortgage market now. there is so much government backstop now and of course we have the hangover from the bailouts themselves. so saying you have the market correcting when you have all of this government support is not something i would agree with. >> reporter: and bair points out j.p. morgan chase was using money from government-insured deposits to place those risky trades on credit default swaps. losses on those trades could cost the bank up to $5 billion. >> with all this government support, i am not sure that we have the market discipline that we need to contain risk. and so i think there is
jamie dimon called the law too complicated. markets, he said have self- corrected following after the financial crisis. >> a lot of what caused the problem don't exist anymore. and that wasn't because of regulations, it was because of markets. >> reporter: bair disagrees. >> well, gee, i hardly know where to start. the government is guaranteeing so much right now. the insured deposits have exploded. we're guaranteeing almost all of the mortgage market now. there is so much...
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we have changed the laws. we have changed many laws. there are many federal programs that may look good, but when you start to implement those programs, it makes it difficult for people in rural communities to be able to use those types of programs. one of the things that has been successful is getting our young women back into school. we have a high dropout rate. our go about rate is connected to other social problems. i could talk about everything. however, in many tribal communities like mine, women have stepped up to leadership roles. as the first woman president of my tribe -- i am sorry. white women have a glass ceiling. how many have heard about the glass ceiling? in indian america, we have a buckskin ceiling. [laughter] and the buckskin ceiling works like this, ok? buckskin is pliable. it stretches. for many years, we felt like we were really making progress. we would get only so far and were knocked flat on our rear ends. it is that internalized oppression. in our communities of color, we hold each other back. and not only wome
we have changed the laws. we have changed many laws. there are many federal programs that may look good, but when you start to implement those programs, it makes it difficult for people in rural communities to be able to use those types of programs. one of the things that has been successful is getting our young women back into school. we have a high dropout rate. our go about rate is connected to other social problems. i could talk about everything. however, in many tribal communities like...
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as you may know, california has had the most draconian three strikes law in america. under california law, until election day, it was the case that you could get a third strike that would put you in jail for life, even if the third strike was petty or non-violent, like stealing a slice of pizza or stealing sox. these are cases where people got life sentences. so the california voters, god bless him, have made a victory -- a major victory for the country. a petty or non-run defense cannot put you in prison for life. going forward, there are 35 people in california whose sentences will now be revisited, people whose life sentences will be far proved. and there thousands more who would have gone life sentences for completely petty and nonviolent crimes and now won't. it is humane and it will save the state about $150 million a year. i want to see that resonated across the country. tavis: what to your mind is happening with the california political psyche or in the water we drink? what is happening in california that allowed that to pass, because, to your point, for some
as you may know, california has had the most draconian three strikes law in america. under california law, until election day, it was the case that you could get a third strike that would put you in jail for life, even if the third strike was petty or non-violent, like stealing a slice of pizza or stealing sox. these are cases where people got life sentences. so the california voters, god bless him, have made a victory -- a major victory for the country. a petty or non-run defense cannot put...
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question the judgment of this decree and worry about the precedent that this establishes for the rule of law. it appears to be challenging the will of the supreme court, potentially dangerous path for the country to go down. >> michael, thank you very much. the devil is in the details when it comes to democracy. turning to damascus, the international on boy tried to breathe new life into his plan to stop the bloodshed in syria. after his meeting, he said a new framework had been reached, but there were few details on what the next steps would be. the death toll in the conflict has reached 17,000. >> possibly the last throw of the dice as he tries to rescue his stricken peace plan. with violence raging on, the u.n. has given up on the cease- fire for the moment. but he seemed to believe that a way might be found to restore it. >> we discussed the need to end the violence and the ways and means of doing so. we have an approach that we will also share with opposition. waxy is also trying to prepare a political dialogue. no easy task with the opposition insisting that he must step aside. he says
question the judgment of this decree and worry about the precedent that this establishes for the rule of law. it appears to be challenging the will of the supreme court, potentially dangerous path for the country to go down. >> michael, thank you very much. the devil is in the details when it comes to democracy. turning to damascus, the international on boy tried to breathe new life into his plan to stop the bloodshed in syria. after his meeting, he said a new framework had been reached,...
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obamacare was bad law yesterday, it's bad law today. >> susie: still ahead, we'll look at what's next for the affordable care act: its implementation, and what to expect for health care stocks. "nightly business report" is brought to you by: captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: today's big ruling on health care removes one giant uncertainty for businesses and lawmakers. many had put their planning on hold while the justices debated the president's health care law. now they are scrambling to make up for lost time. darren gersh takes a look at what comes next. >> reporter: the takeaway message for employers from today's supreme court decision is "get moving!" any business waiting, or perhaps hoping, the affordable care act would be thrown out now faces some big decisions. beginning with whether to scale back insurance benefits in the next enrollment period to the minimum package required under the health care law. >> you could very easily as an employer say, "i need to kind of ratchet back my benefits. i need to get you accustomed to getting a little less. >> reporter: now that the hi
obamacare was bad law yesterday, it's bad law today. >> susie: still ahead, we'll look at what's next for the affordable care act: its implementation, and what to expect for health care stocks. "nightly business report" is brought to you by: captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: today's big ruling on health care removes one giant uncertainty for businesses and lawmakers. many had put their planning on hold while the justices debated the president's health care law. now...
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. >> ifill: then, we look at michigan's debate over right-to- work laws which would prevent labor unions from requiring membership.
. >> ifill: then, we look at michigan's debate over right-to- work laws which would prevent labor unions from requiring membership.
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with the abuse of afghan women despite laws to protect them. one of the many problems the country faces. u.s. forces, that departure comes after a great sacrifice. one of the deadly as battles took place in 2009. it was there in eastern afghanistan, come under assault by 400 fighters. the events have been captured in a new book titled the outpost. he spoke to me a brief time ago. jay, you cover the politics in afghanistan. >> i was covering the war from the comfort of the white house and it is all very political, churning out troop numbers and it seemed a little cold. and when my son was born, my son jack was born, i looked up and he was a day old and there is this report of the combat outpost being attacked, the bottom of three steep mountains. i was holding my son hearing about eight other sons taken from this world and that moment the stock with me. i needed to know why an outpost was put there and what is it like to face of overwhelming odds and it went on from there? >> your focus on the book is this combat outpost. what does that tell us
with the abuse of afghan women despite laws to protect them. one of the many problems the country faces. u.s. forces, that departure comes after a great sacrifice. one of the deadly as battles took place in 2009. it was there in eastern afghanistan, come under assault by 400 fighters. the events have been captured in a new book titled the outpost. he spoke to me a brief time ago. jay, you cover the politics in afghanistan. >> i was covering the war from the comfort of the white house and...
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the measure could be signed into law tomorrow. more developments today on the bankruptcy process at hostess. the maker of twinkies and wonder bread says it needs to borrow $30 million from its liquidator in order to finish selling off its baking business. hostess says it has received more than 100 inquiries for the rights to its popular snack food brands, but that money from potential sales won't come until spring. well, on wall street investor kos use a little comfort food. stocks have been meandering as investors are waiting on that fiscal cliff as suzanne reported a little earlier in the program. but the good news is that stocks were up, that makes four sessions in a row. >> no sugar rush though in the stock buying today at all here, suzie. let's look at our market focus. it was a quiet day of trading with no economic data and no noteworthy movement on fiscal cliff negotiations. the s&p 500 stuck to a very narrow trading range, just six points from its low point right after the opening bell to its highest level of the session,
the measure could be signed into law tomorrow. more developments today on the bankruptcy process at hostess. the maker of twinkies and wonder bread says it needs to borrow $30 million from its liquidator in order to finish selling off its baking business. hostess says it has received more than 100 inquiries for the rights to its popular snack food brands, but that money from potential sales won't come until spring. well, on wall street investor kos use a little comfort food. stocks have been...
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, we have the latest on today's hearing and assess the nation's gun, assault weapon, and ammunition laws in the wake of the tragedy. >> ifill: then, ray suarez explores the fallout at penn state after the n.c.a.a. imposed fines and penalties that could cripple the school's storied football program. >> w
, we have the latest on today's hearing and assess the nation's gun, assault weapon, and ammunition laws in the wake of the tragedy. >> ifill: then, ray suarez explores the fallout at penn state after the n.c.a.a. imposed fines and penalties that could cripple the school's storied football program. >> w
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afterwards, my mother in law untied me. neither of them told me why i deserved it. >> later, she told that she thought it was because her husband thought that she had taken too long getting water from a well and he thought she was having an affair. pakistan has just passed new laws meant to help protect women. they will mean longer sentences in cases of violence against women and make specific crimes of things like forced marriage. human rights groups welcomed the laws and they believe that legislation is only part of the problem. >> this community, they have a mind-set against the rights of women. do not their women to go outside the home. they think if they decide to have their life, they will keep them hostage in their home. >> this woman was in her home after an argument with her son's wife when she said two men burst into the yard. she recognized them as relatives of her daughter and locked. they forced into her room and they beat her and raped her. -- too recognized them as relatives of her daughter-in- law. death wou
afterwards, my mother in law untied me. neither of them told me why i deserved it. >> later, she told that she thought it was because her husband thought that she had taken too long getting water from a well and he thought she was having an affair. pakistan has just passed new laws meant to help protect women. they will mean longer sentences in cases of violence against women and make specific crimes of things like forced marriage. human rights groups welcomed the laws and they believe...
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largest warchest is the determiner of who's going to be elected for a specific office or what kind of laws are going to be passed by congress. >> you have a better chance to be an organ donor than seeing any other retirement money. >> yeah i think this is a perfect, kind of forum, for us all to come and talk about -- >> back and forth. >> yes. i've seen many souls changed in the last three days. >> really. >> yeah. on all sides including the other side of the --. >> i went through the woodstock generation and i thought it's back to business as usual. and sort of it was a big party. that's what i see this as, a party with no cover. i'm a defender of money. freedom, individual freedom, rich people. because i'm still, even though i've not gray, i'm still trying to be one. because the more money i have the more good i can do. they're all rich people. reverend ike a black minister who used to preach up near new york. he used to say if you curse the rich, you will never be one. >> i mean look at the people out here. do you think they're out here just hanging out? i mean, that blows my mind that
largest warchest is the determiner of who's going to be elected for a specific office or what kind of laws are going to be passed by congress. >> you have a better chance to be an organ donor than seeing any other retirement money. >> yeah i think this is a perfect, kind of forum, for us all to come and talk about -- >> back and forth. >> yes. i've seen many souls changed in the last three days. >> really. >> yeah. on all sides including the other side of the...
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. >> he demanded meaningful action, a hint at perhaps tighter gun laws. that argument is for tomorrow. for now, america is trying to comprehend the how and why of the mass killings and a small rural community. new town was supposed to be a haven, a world away from the bustle of nearby new york. today, the elementary school was robbed of it and since joining colorblind and virginia tech of the grim roll call of loss. -- joining columbine and virginia tech of the grim roll- call of loss. >> what are the police saying? do we know any more about what happened? >> >> police are not saying very much, actually. they have not officially released the name of the gunmen but they have confirmed there was only one. they were arguing that there might have been a key. what we h been hearing unofficially is that he was a 20-year-old who was the son of a teacher at the school. the way he was described was completely dressed in black carrying two handguns. he stopped at the principal's office, shot the principal, scott the school psychologist, injured the vice principal a
. >> he demanded meaningful action, a hint at perhaps tighter gun laws. that argument is for tomorrow. for now, america is trying to comprehend the how and why of the mass killings and a small rural community. new town was supposed to be a haven, a world away from the bustle of nearby new york. today, the elementary school was robbed of it and since joining colorblind and virginia tech of the grim roll call of loss. -- joining columbine and virginia tech of the grim roll- call of loss....
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a legal showdown today for president obama's healthcare reform law. the supreme court began the first of three days of historic hearings on the controversial law. tom, this case is getting incredible attention all across the country. >> tom: a key issue before the court, susie, is whether congress has the right under the constitution to require all americans to buy health insurance, whether they want it or not. almost 50 million americans do not have health insurance and 26 states are challenging the law's requirement. in today's opening arguments, lawyers made a case the insurance mandate doesn't take effect until 2014, arguing the high court shouldn't rule until then. >> susie: the court's decision could have far-reaching implications for the economy and many businesses as well as you. darren gersh was at the supreme court and filed this report. >> reporter: even for the supreme court, today was historic. outside, protesters for and against testified to the importance of this case. but inside, the court began with a narrow legal question: to avoid f
a legal showdown today for president obama's healthcare reform law. the supreme court began the first of three days of historic hearings on the controversial law. tom, this case is getting incredible attention all across the country. >> tom: a key issue before the court, susie, is whether congress has the right under the constitution to require all americans to buy health insurance, whether they want it or not. almost 50 million americans do not have health insurance and 26 states are...
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what we're talking about here is, if the top uses its political influence to get laws and regulations that benefit them at the rest of our society, that's a fact and that's a distortion to our economy from which we all suffer. when you have a bankruptcy law that says derivatives get first claim, first priority, get paid before anybody else, what you're doing is encouraging derivatives. that means the economy gets distorted towards these speculative activities that led to the aig bail-out of $150 billion dollars. on the other hand, if you have a bankruptcy law that says student loans can't be discharged even in bankruptcy, even if the school doesn't give the education that was promised, then we're making life so much more difficult for those at the bottom, those who are striving to make their way in our rough society. so to me, what we need to do is to take an objective look at our laws and regulations and the way that they are not only advantaging the top, disadvantaging the bottom, but actually weakening our economy. tavis: finally here, i've argued that poverty -- an issue that you
what we're talking about here is, if the top uses its political influence to get laws and regulations that benefit them at the rest of our society, that's a fact and that's a distortion to our economy from which we all suffer. when you have a bankruptcy law that says derivatives get first claim, first priority, get paid before anybody else, what you're doing is encouraging derivatives. that means the economy gets distorted towards these speculative activities that led to the aig bail-out of...
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i went to law school at columbia, during the vietnam war and so i kind of came away from that with a sort of social democrat, if i will, if i may, and so we were an offset project i said there will be a significant amount of affordable housing. >> rose: you did that out of some instinct for there ought to be public housing rather than what i can do that will give them an opportunity to give the go-ahead to my project. >> absolutely. in fact, really from the first day i started developing i said to myself everything that i am going to do has got to have a public component. i don't just want to build a luxury residential building. i don't want to do that. if i do it, it's got to have architecture. >> rose: take a lack at this, firsthand, simulated image of the barclays center named for barclays bank. there you go. and for the new jersey nets which will book. >> the brooklyn nets. >> rose: hear it is, look at that place. tell me about it. >> well, all right, first of all, it's built for basketball. it's much like inside the conseco center, very good sight lines. we studied 16 different
i went to law school at columbia, during the vietnam war and so i kind of came away from that with a sort of social democrat, if i will, if i may, and so we were an offset project i said there will be a significant amount of affordable housing. >> rose: you did that out of some instinct for there ought to be public housing rather than what i can do that will give them an opportunity to give the go-ahead to my project. >> absolutely. in fact, really from the first day i started...